• @holycrap@lemm.ee
      8•1 year ago

      In fairness it used to be a lot of trouble to set up and maintain a Linux desktop. That hasn’t been true for years but the attitude didn’t come from nowhere.

      • @Bro666MA
        4•1 year ago

        “Set up” I agree, “maintain” not so much. From the mid-2000s onwards Linux tended to be more stable and easier to update than Windows, as I recall.

        • Iαη
          1•1 year ago

          @Bro666 @holycrap
          I install it from a USB stick. It’s not hard. Last time that took me less than 10 minutes. I’m not an IT person, never using the command line or any IT things.
          Linux is not perfect, but very usable. The distro I use looks after itself. If anything does mess up, I can simply reinstall.

      • OddOpinions5
        1•1 year ago

        @holycrap

        It is quite possible that my memory is from the slashdot era of comments like

        “I put Linux on my laptop and then the wireless didn’t work and it took me 3 hours on the help forum . .”

    • @kescusay@lemmy.world
      8•1 year ago

      I’m curious when this was. A modern plasma desktop today just works. I have very, very little trouble with it. Conversely, my Windows machine (required for accessing my work VPN) is a nightmare of constant problems.

    • @Gebruikersnaam@lemmy.ml
      2•1 year ago

      I personally know a lot of bioinformaticians that run linux on their desktops. If you live in the terminal you don’t wanna be bothered with all Windows bs and linux comes with everything you need. Most don’t even care about the DE that much.